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奥康纳老师的写作方法：简单捏一个南部乡村世界，放几个“畸形人”，慢条斯理地推故事但主要展示人物的令人生厌之处，偶尔写几笔风景但不会花太多功夫，这一切只为把故事推到一个意料之外的超然的时刻（被她自己称为“不愿接受的人感受到恩典”的时刻），这个时刻的通常伴随着极端的情感或身体暴力，角色在会突然失去对身体的控制（被她解释为“恩典时刻是痛苦的”，但也跟她自己罹患红斑狼疮有关）。这部选集里面大部分作品的时代背景并不突出（或者说二战后的美国南部乡村仿佛看不到任何社会的激流），唯一例外的一篇The Displaced Person背景为《难民法案》通过后大量欧洲移民来到南部，在今天依然常看常新，大概作者自己也没想到吧。
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
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publishing house:
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
1992
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This now classic book revealed Flannery O'Connor as one of the most original and provocative writers to emerge from the South. Her apocalyptic vision of life is expressed through grotesque, often comic situations in which the principal character faces a problem of salvation: the grandmother, in the title story, confronting the murderous Misfit; a neglected four-year-old boy looking for the Kingdom of Christ in the fast-flowing waters of the river; General Sash, about to meet the final enemy. Stories include:<br /><br />"A Good Man Is Hard to Find"<br />"The River"<br />"The Life You Save May Be Your Own"<br />"A Stroke of Good Fortune"<br />"A Temple of the Holy Ghost"<br />"The Artificial Nigger"<br />"A Circle in the Fire"<br />"A Late Encounter with the Enemy"<br />"Good Country People"<br />"The Displaced Person"<br />©1955 Flannery O'Connor; 1954, 1953, 1948 by Flannery O'Connor; renewed 1983, 1981 by Regina O'Connor; renewed 1976 by Mrs. Edward F. O'Connor; (P)2010 Blackstone Audio, Inc.